The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-30

LOYALTY to the Democratic party as the Cit
zens of any town in the State, and enter
tain no fear that prohibition will weaken
it, all else to the contrary notwithstand'
ing. We must face the issuesquarely, and
not introduce far-fetched strained argu-
ments. The elevation and publication OF
society demand that we supportit. These
are our views; if others candidly differ
from us we shall certainly respect their
opinions, but doubt the accuracy OF their
decision. u.
Twiggs Items.
Improvements are still in progress at
this place. A cotton platform has been
built capable of holding several hundred
bales. A public well has been dug and
affords excellent water. Mr.. j. T. c.
jones has improved the appearance of his
storeroom by having it neatly painted.
We notice lumber Of all kinds lying
around the depot at this place, and from
what we hear, several new buildings will
be commenced when the crops are laid
by.
1t is thought several hundred bales Of
cotton will be shipped from this point if
reasonable freight rates can be obtained.
Crops of oil kinds are still on q boom,
and our farmers are pushing their work
with q vim. The corn crop is about all
laid by, and the cotton crop is in splendid
condition. 1t is quite encouraging to
ride through the country and look at the
magnificent prospect for crops of all
kinds. Watermelons, pindars, potatoes
and all side crops are keeping pace with
the corn and cotton. Wheat is about all
threshed, and while the yield is not so
large as was expected, it is of excellent
quality and is producing asuperior article
of flour. Enough oats have been harvest
ed to enable the farmer to feed his stock
until the corn crop comes in.
We heard gentleman of this section
remark the other day that he and one Of
his neighbors were estimating their COM
bined crops Of cotton at two hundred
bales, provided no disaster should befall
them. The. following dialogue, or some
thing like it. can be heard among the far
mers almost every day: Neighbor A.
will say to neighbor B.-"How is your
crop?" Neighbor B Fine, I never had
better prospect for a crop, the seasons
have suited exactly, my hands have
worked we'll, and feel very thankful
indeed; but, friend A., fear our crops
are too promising, we haven't had a hail
storm in this section yet, but I am look
ing for one the next time it rains, and I
believe the signs are good fora drouth;
any way look for some disaster to come
upon our crops. They have been doing
too we'll, and I expect every day to see
this beautiful prospect blasted" Neigh
Dor A. replies-"Well. I believe you are
about right about hail, and agree with
you about the signs for drouth anyhow;
if we don't have drouth we will be GER
tain to have wet spell, and perhaps a big
freshet; tell you, neighbor B., taking
everything into consideration, the times
look rather gloomy"
Your correspondent has heard some
thing like the above frequently, and it
dark side of everything.
One of our most thrifty and energetic
farmers arose from his couch last Sabbath
morning and donned his everyday appa.
rel, and partaking of hearty breakfast,
caught his horse and commenced plow-
ing, expecting to do big days work. He
was not aware of his error until one of his
hands passed by going to church he
would not admit that he was breaking
the fourth commandment, and tried to
prevail upon the darkie to return and lay
off her Sunday dress and proceed to her
work. Other persons passing that way
finally prevailed on him to desist. He
has an excellent crop, which 30 engrossed
his mind that he fell into the error that it
was Saturday.
Mr.. j. L. Tate, who has been sojourning
in Florida several months past, returned
home recently, and says that country did
not come up to his expectations. He
says Florida has few advantages over our
own country, but great many disadvan
tages from which our country is free.
He says there are many Carolinians who
would gladly return to their native State
if they had the means to enable them to
LILO JSoh6 41ASA Va oa3ss sSOoheAy
who are ambitious and not satisfied with
their surroundings in this County, should
make note of this, and look we'll before
they decide to leave their homes to better
their condition by removing to other
States.
It was our pleasure on last third Sunday
evening to hear Temperance or prohibit
ton sermon preached by Rev. W. n.
King, at Hebron church. 1t was, without
doubt, the best discourse on temperance
we ever heard. he appealed to the rea.
son and common sense of his audience,
and proved conclusively that the greatest
evil in this day and generation Is intem-
perance and showed clearly the duty Of
every one in the great effort now being
made to rid our country of this great evil.
Space will not admit of our giving the
salient points in his sermon. Suffice it
to say, it was well received by every one,
except one or two anti-prohibitionis
and they admitted that every word spo.
ken was naked truth. One more ser.
mon of the kind would make our section
solid for prohibition. The positions occu.
pied by the antics are untenable, and
their arguments against prohibition have
worn threadbare. and if they would only
lay prejudice aside, the battle would be
virtually won by those in favor of prohi'
bition, OMEGA"